Our last task in drama was to create a piece to 'mark the moments' in the play 'Too Much Punch For Judy', which tells the story of two casually drunk girls and their car crash.
             We chose to mark the moments in the play that we thought were most significant and would engage and inform the audience of the plays general plot most successfully. The structure of our performance was as follows:
             1. General introduction to the story by way of narrator
             This scene involved just one character on stage that was not involved in the play explaining the background of the girls and telling the audience of the car accidents. We chose to put this scene at the beginning because it was very informative, we thought this would help to make the rest of our performance flow and help the audience understand each segment as they were performed. The lighting for this scene was a single spotlight, we chose this because it helped the audience understand that this character was separate from the performance and would act as an observing figure throughout the performance. The speech type of this informative section was very formal and factual, we thought this would add more of a shock in the audiences reaction tow hat was being said, we also chose this as it resembled the reading methods of a TV newsreader, which we thought would accentuate the lack of emotion and with that, the shock in the audience.
             This scene was the audience's first exposure to the crash and with that we wanted to take full advantage of the fact they were unprepared. We did this by keeping the performance in blackout while the sisters drunkenly argued their way into the car. We tried to make it obvious that the sisters were drunk through the language and slur on all speech in the scene. We used the song, 'perfect day' by Lou Reed in this scene, we thought that the lyrics and theme of the song would be ironic to the situation on stage and that this w...